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Articles of the author Mohammed Al Abdullah
Kingdom imports more than four million sheep in seven months
Okaz / Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — Saudi Arabia has imported 4.1 million heads of sheep during the period January-July 2019 through the Jeddah Islamic Seaport with an increase of 21 percent over the same period last year, according to the Saudi Ports (...)

10 - 08 - 2019
Recruitment offices face fine for failure to receive arriving maids
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — The Ministry of Labor and Social Development has made it mandatory on recruitment offices and companies to receive the housemaids who are arriving in the Kingdom for the first time warning them that failure to do so will (...)

30 - 07 - 2019
Ethiopian maids to be here soon following successful negotiations
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — The Ministry of Labor and Social Development will lift the ban on the recruitment of Ethiopian housemaids on Sunday following successful negotiations between Riyadh and Addis Ababa on the modalities which continued for (...)

27 - 07 - 2019
Saudi gets prison, lashes for breaking expat's teeth
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — The Criminal Court in Dammam has sentenced a young Saudi man in his 20s to one month in prison, 50 whip lashes to be applied at once and asked him to pay SR126,000 in compensation for breaking the teeth of a nine-year-old (...)

24 - 07 - 2019
Labor minister intervenes to end Unified Recruitment Contract rift
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — Minister of Labor and Social Development, Ahmed Al-Rajhi, is scheduled to meet with the representatives of the local recruitment offices to discuss the implications of the new Unified Recruitment Contract (URC) which the (...)

09 - 07 - 2019
Saudi recruitment offices determined to challenge new contract conditions
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — The National Recruitment Committee in the Saudi Council of Chambers is determined to take steps against the adamance of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development to go ahead with its decision to implement a new unified (...)

06 - 07 - 2019
Saudi ministry adamant on enforcing unified contract for housemaids
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — The unified recruitment contract for household workers has finally been uploaded onto the Ministry of Labor and Social Development's Musaned e-gate after a delay of 24 hours. The format of the contract, which should have (...)

03 - 07 - 2019
Unified Contract: Ministry having second thoughts?
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — The Musanid e-portal of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development is yet to have the provision of Unified Contract (UC) for recruitment of housemaids. The contract was to be implemented from Monday. Industry sources (...)

02 - 07 - 2019
Saudi agents reject new conditions, halt maid recruitment
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — Saudi recruitment offices have decided not to accept any new applications to recruit housemaids from Monday. The decision came in protest against an article in the unified contract, which requires them to pay a fine equal (...)

30 - 06 - 2019
700 Saudi recruitment offices seek review of uniform contract
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — Around 700 Saudi recruitment offices have objected to some provisions in the uniform contract for the recruitment of domestic workers, approved by Minister of Labor and Social Development Ahmed Al-Rajhi. In a letter (...)

27 - 05 - 2019
Riyadh, Jakarta negotiate quick return of Indonesian housemaids
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — Indonesian ambassador to the Kingdom has said labor ministries in the two countries are currently negotiating the return of Indonesian housemaids to the Kingdom. Ambassador Agus Maftuh Abegebriel, however, explained that (...)

13 - 05 - 2019
Manila eases conditions for maid recruitment Manpower offices granted more options
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — The Philippines government has recently issued a decision enabling the Saudi recruitment offices to contract four manpower exporting offices in the country instead of two previously, industry sources have revealed. They (...)

18 - 02 - 2019
كيف أكون ذو قوام بدني متناسق؟
لا يختلف أحد على أن المعدة هي بيت الداء والدواء وهي السبب الأكبر في كثير من المشاكل الصحية للإنسان، وغالبا ينتج من سوء التغذية والأساليب الخاطئة للأكل أمراض مثل السمنة وأمراض عضوية كثيرة أخرى، ويظن البعض أن تناول كميات كبيرة من الأكل والإفراط في (...)

08 - 09 - 2018
Sellers abandon Qatif fish market citing poor maintenance
Okaz/Saudi Gazette QATIF – Many salesmen have abandoned the central fish market in Qatif, one of the largest in the Middle East, as a result of its poor maintenance. At least 69 stalls in the market remain unoccupied. "At present there are only 40 (...)

23 - 04 - 2017
Lanka ups housemaid recruitment fees by about 92%
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — Sri Lankan recruitment offices have turned their back on agreement with their Saudi counterparts by raising housemaid recruitment fees by about 92 percent from US$1,560 to US$3,000, according to chairman of the (...)

17 - 04 - 2017
Over a million housemaid visas issued last year
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — As many as 1,089,342 housemaid recruitment visas were issued through the Musaned electronic portal in 2016, the Ministry of Labor and Social Development has announced. It said that 61,411 workers, including 40,750 who (...)

05 - 04 - 2017
Soft drink prices may rise by 50%
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — A 50 percent increase in the price of soft drinks is expected with the introduction of selective tax across six Gulf countries. In February, the Saudi Cabinet approved the selective tax agreement which was given the (...)

03 - 04 - 2017
Traders want access to Safwa vegetable market improved
QATIF – Traders at Safwa vegetable market, 10 km north of Qatif city, have urged the municipality to redesign the market's access road to allow supply trucks to bring in produce at all times without obstacle. The traders approached Safwa Municipal (...)

18 - 12 - 2016
Clearance from police delays hiring from Bangladesh
DAMMAM — Police clearance certificates, made compulsory by the Saudi Embassy in Dhaka for Bangladeshi men and women before recruitment to work in the Kingdom, has delayed the arrival of housemaids, according to national recruitment offices in the (...)

28 - 07 - 2016
Sheep prices soar despite summer slump
DAMMAM – While chicken stalls in the Kingdom make special offers to consumers to beat the recession caused by the summer vacation and many people traveling abroad, sheep prices have gone up with rates ranging from SR350 to SR1,200 per head depending (...)

21 - 07 - 2016
Pilgrims to get Zamzam in their accommodations
MAKKAH — Zamzam water will be provided to Haj pilgrims in their accommodations through out their stay in Makkah, according to Minister of Haj and Umrah Muhammad Saleh Bentan. "Provision of the blessed water to the guests of Allah is a scared duty. (...)

18 - 07 - 2016
Imam goes back on claim Gabriel attended prayer
Qahtani ABHA — Imam of the grand mosque in Khamis Mushayat, Ahmed Al-Hawashi, has claimed that Archangel Gabriel and a group of other angels attended Taraweeh (special Ramadan night prayers) with him. In the supplications at the end of the prayer, (...)

13 - 07 - 2016
Qatif gives wholehearted support to unity campaign
QATIF — The people of Qatif have welcomed the campaign titled "Ehna Al-Ahl" (We Are One Family) organized by social development committees in the Eastern Province to strengthen national unity. A number of government departments are participating in (...)

29 - 05 - 2016
Transport sector calls for cut in Saudization quota
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — The National Committee for Land Transport at the Council of Saudi Chambers has called upon the Labor and Social Development Ministry to reduce the Saudization rate from 20 to 5 percent in order to rescue the sector from (...)

10 - 05 - 2016
Haramain university
Al-Jazirah It seems the officials of the two holy mosques are still campaigning for the establishment of Haramain University. I thought they would drop the plan after many academics had expressed their reservation and opposition on the proposed (...)

11 - 04 - 2016
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